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Protecting the Frontline against Burnout: Creating cultures to promote resilience and wellbeing for social care and health professionals
Event Details
Time: March 10, 2015 all day
Location: Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury
City/Town: London
Website or Map: http://www.communitycareconfe…
Phone: Kim Lascelles Email: events.registration@rbi.co.uk Telephone: 020 8652 4659
Event Type: one, day, conference
Organized By: Community Care
Latest Activity: Dec 20, 2014
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Event Description
If - as a society - we want caring and compassionate frontline professionals, we have to treat them with care and compassion to facilitate this.
There is strong evidence of stress related illness, linked to both physical and mental health, within the health and social care workforce. A ‘perfect storm’ is developing with ever increasing demands on the workforce accompanied by decreasing resources.
This is having a detrimental effect on the health and wellbeing of health and social care workers as they struggle to cope. They are also at greater risk of becoming desensitised to the emotional impact of their roles and thus, less able to give the best therapeutic care to those on the receiving end of services.
The consequences for organisations include:
- Absenteeism and long-term sick leave
- High staff-turnover and use of agency, bank staff and management consultancies
- Expensive and on-going recruitment and retention processes
- Errors and impaired quality and safety of social and health care
In short, we have a lose-lose situation for employers, workers, those using services and carers.
Community Care is seeking to develop a win-win situation for all in these sectors and this conference will look at:
- How support can be constructively improved by changing the team, management and organisational cultures
- Practical tools to support the workforce to do ‘a difficult job better’
- Why and how wellbeing and resilience should be at the heart of supporting caring and compassionate professionals
This event is relevant for all frontline workers across social care and health, for their managers, heads of service, directors and workforce development leads.
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